 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poetry - 1904 - 108 pages
...determination of the will. A man cannot say, "I will compose poetry." The greatest poet even can not say it; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal,...brightness; this power arises from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, 77 and the conscious portions of our... | |
 | C. E. Heisch - Authorship - 1905 - 148 pages
...reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, ' I will compose poetry.' The greatest poet, even, cannot...transitory brightness ; this power arises from within, . . . and the conscious portions of our nature are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure.... | |
 | Free Religious Association (Boston, Mass.). Meeting - Religion - 1907 - 848 pages
...proceed to disregard it by setting aside all its requisitions. Shelley says that a man cannot say, " ' I will compose " poetry.' The greatest poet even cannot...which fades and changes as it is developed, and the con" scious portions of our nature are unprophetic either of its " approach or its departure." [" Defense... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - English literature - 1907 - 424 pages
...like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, "I will compose poetry." The greatest poet even cannot...brightness; this power arises from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of our natures... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - English literature - 1907 - 424 pages
...like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, "I will compose poetry." The greatest poet even cannot...brightness; this power arises from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of our natures... | |
 | Carleton Eldredge Noyes - Aesthetics - 1907 - 306 pages
...the instant into desire, which becomes the urge to creation. "The mind in creation," says Shelley, " is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence,...wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this power rises from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1908 - 294 pages
...reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, " I will compose poetry." The greatest poet even cannot...brightness ; this power arises from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of our nature... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1909 - 304 pages
...reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, ' I will compose poetry.' The greatest poet even cannot...brightness ; \this power arises from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of our natures... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Criticism - 1909 - 312 pages
...reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, ' I will ., compose poetry.' The greatest poet even cannot...awakens to transitory brightness\ this power arises '*,"'. t* • from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1909 - 304 pages
...determination of the will. A man cannot say, ' I wil compose poetry.' "TKe greatest poet even cannot saj it ; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal,...an inconstant wind awakens to transitory brightness ; thjs power arises! frorp. irithinj like the colour of a flower which fades / . j and changes as it... | |
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I will compose poetry". The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness... 
